Comment Re:swine... (Score 1) 189
I think everyone here is being very short sighted with your concepts. Capitalism is an excellent way to distribute resources and organize groups of people when there is something new and needs new organization or distribution. It quickly becomes dominated by someone/business that must be broken down (ie trust busting or splitting the winner to maintain the useful competition that originally distributed the resource.) This is the role of gov't, or should be; regulate and protect the public because the natural end result of capitalism is to maximize profit which at some point will mean "take advange of little guy because we just can't reasonable be more efficient and we already killed the competition."
What I am saying is that we should be looking for a cyclical phenomena. Capitalism sees this non-tangible thing/concept of IP and takes advantage. It created huge companies like MS. Google and Co. who in turn have thousands of employees who buy stuff and the system goes forward. This power has been concentrating since the IT bubble bust and now it is reaching the tipping point; something's gotta give. IV is an example of this. The exploitation must cycle again or a new thing will come up.
It's like populism, a great concept but not complete. Populism wants the best for those who have the least. If it succeeds it destroys itself and there must be a plan for what we do when "now those who had the least have more." Capitalism is the same, it does one thing really well but there must a next step for when it finishes distributing.